Nature and Travel
| Iceland Monitor
| Tue 27 Mar 2018
| 14.15 GMT
Swarm of earthquakes hits North Iceland
The earthquakes this morning with the largest shown as a green star on the map. Skjáskot/Veðurstofa Íslands
Almost thirty earthquakes occurred in North Iceland and the ocean north of Iceland last night. The largest earthquake of the swarm occcured at 2.30 AM at a magnitude of 3.0. Its origins were around 20 km North East of Siglufjörður.
The swarm began at around 00.30 last night and most of them were at a magnitude of between 1.0 and 2.0. An earthquake of 2.8 occurred North East of Grímsey.
The Iceland Met Office sees no cause for concern but is carefully monitoring events.
